Two Critical Flaws in a Popular WordPress Calendar Plugin Put 600,000+ Sites at Risk of Full Takeover
Two unauthenticated, maximum-severity vulnerabilities in the widely used 'The Events Calendar' WordPress plugin could let attackers seize full control of more than 600,000 websites without ever logging in....
Attackers Are Quietly Cloning Domain Controllers’ Password Database — Then Deleting the Evidence
Incident responders at Huntress have documented a stealthy attack pattern in which intruders use Windows' own shadow-copy tooling to clone and steal the Active Directory password database, then...
Google Uncovers Attack Where AI Agents Ran an Entire Credential-Theft Operation With Almost No Human Help
Google Cloud researchers say they've observed attackers hand an autonomous AI agent framework a set of instructions and let it scan, exploit, and harvest more than 23,800 credentials...
Cisco Email Gateway Zero-Day Gives Remote Attackers Root Control
Cisco is warning that attackers are exploiting a critical Secure Email Gateway zero-day to execute commands as root without authentication. Organizations should isolate management interfaces, apply Cisco’s remediation...
FortiGate Exploit Opens Broadband Provider to Credential Theft and Network Pivoting
Researchers uncovered infrastructure indicating that attackers exploited a FortiGate SSL-VPN weakness during an intrusion targeting Thailand’s 3BB broadband provider. The operation combined perimeter access, privilege escalation, credential theft...
Mass Scanning of Exposed Vite Servers Targets AWS and Azure Secrets
Attackers are automatically probing internet-accessible Vite development servers for environment files, cloud credentials and infrastructure secrets. F5 telemetry recorded about 32,000 raw events in August, highlighting the risk...
Malicious Twitch Extension Leaks OAuth Tokens From 30,000 Browser Users
A Twitch helper extension installed by about 30,000 Chrome and Firefox users was found sending active account tokens through operator-controlled servers. The incident shows how a seemingly convenient...
Exploited Zero-Days and Perimeter Flaws Put Patch Triage Under Pressure
This week’s security picture is dominated by exploited Windows and Chrome zero-days, dangerous flaws in perimeter products and increasingly automated attack operations. Defenders need risk-based patch sequencing, exposure...